Review: 'Blair Witch Project' sequel gets lost in the woods

Even environmentalists would agree — what about a nice big parking lot? — after sitting through the harrowing "Blair Witch," which takes place in the same creepy woods where three student filmmakers disappeared in the original.

Why either a new batch of kids or a new clutch of filmmakers have suited up to tramp around the Black Hills in search of the same angry witch is puzzling.

First a primer, in case you just wandered out of a haunted forest: "The Blair Witch Project" was a cultural sensation.

The three students gradually turn on each other in the face of escalating hysteria — really just piles of rocks and weird stick figures.

The film really only rights itself in the final, breathtaking sequences when the title character applies her special brand of pressure.

Blair Witch," a Lionsgate, Vertigo Entertainment, Room 101 and Snoot Entertainment release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language, terror and some disturbing images.